About Lorna Miles
Lorna has always been an avid reader and writer and was delighted when BAAF agreed
to publish “Holding on and Hanging in...” in 2010. The book gives an account of the highs
and lows of her and her family's experience of fostering a child in a therapeutic fostering
placement, through nearly five years of family life and has received excellent reviews.
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Lorna and her husband Tim have been involved in working with children in care since 1977,
when they became “aunt and uncle” to a girl in a local children’s home. They first fostered
in 1984 and then went on to adopt two children, now in their twenties. They continued to
foster off and on over the following years before returning to fostering as full time therapeutic
carers in 2005.
Lorna has also worked with families and young people in a variety of settings including, a
youth offenders institute, the Princes Trust, a social services run family centre, as a social
work assistant and as a community education tutor. In this role in addition to running courses
for teenaged mums and families she ran a Basic Skills in the Workplace programme in a
large teaching hospital enabling staff to obtain literacy, numeracy and NVQ qualifications.
More recently Lorna has co-facilitated the “Skills to Foster” course for prospective foster
carers, a workshop on grief and loss in fostering and adoption for CRUSE bereavement
counsellors and a workshop on attachment behaviours at Glamorgan University.
If you have any questions or would like to comment on “Holding on and Hanging in…” Lorna
can be contacted via email: